A new study offers lawmakers a roadmap for addressing key issues affecting Black communities, including voting rights, ...

Civil rights advocates argued the state failed to create new Black-majority districts in redrawn maps mandated by a judge in ...

From voting rights to health care to workplace equality, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a number of issues this summer that could have major implications for Black Americans. “In America, for ...

Challengers tell a federal appeals court that Georgia lawmakers haven’t done enough to end illegal harms to Black voters ...

More than 30 years ago, judicial voting districts were set up in East Baton Rouge Parish to help settle a lawsuit over the lack of Black judges on the bench in Louisiana. Now, a bill moving ...

Campaigners fear the reprieve of a dementia centre may be overturned by Dudley Council despite a vote backing their demands.

Each subdistrict gets to choose five of the court’s 15 judges, an arrangement that resulted from a legal settlement in the 1990s that aimed to protect Black voting rights. But some lawmakers ...

Jack Quinlan, the Army West Point Black Knights catcher at the heart of their season, is a semifinalist for the Buster Posey Award.

In America's history, five Black men have served as governor, but only three of them were elected. Byron Donalds is looking ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into hiring practices at the city of Chicago in ...

For the first time in city history, a Black man has been elected of Omaha, Neb. as Democrat Treasurer John Ewing Jr. defeated ...